Schizophrenia is autism?

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So, is the Original Poster more confused now than when he/she started the thread? lol

I agree.
Also autistic people can delusion over a certian time having too much anxieties oder other symptoms.
But that's still doesn't have to mean that the person has schizophrenia.
My half-brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He doesn't live anymore, but I think nowadays that he might have been just autistic.

They also wanted to give me other diagnoses' all the time and I allways proved them wrong and they got really pissed at me.
Where I live doctors don't have much clue about autism spectrum disorders.

But still if you want to be wure about your diagnoses, go to an autism professional and get checked again.

I think the real problem is the overlap between symptoms. My belief is that people don't necessarily fit into diagnostic criteria boxes nicely which would be based off the theory that all humans are unique. Rather than focusing on labeling people properly and rigidly I think we need to focus on an individual's symptoms and many possible methods of improving the quality of their life which is not limited to medication. That is my biggest problem with the mental health system. The person working with me believes that too and I was advised against allowing an official diagnosis of schizo affective because their worry was that my aspergers would be ignored and the medications used are the same so. Rather than limiting me to medication a window for therapies that would help my autism symptoms is left open. I was warned the window could be closed if I'm officially diagnosed. I genuinely do have my Aspergers diagnosis at this point which gives access to medication and a wider window of therapies. Which has proven to be way more helpful towards my melancholic depression.

This is just an idea but perhaps your psych is assuming that you are having hallucinations when you really are not OP. For example you may have a hard time distinguishing noises from talking when there's a lot of background noise due to your sensory issues: I occasionally have that problems & my psychs thought it was hallucinations when I mentioned that problem to them. Also being on psych meds might could cause you to appear to be more Schizophrenic

Possible.

It was the same with me once.
I was in the psychiatry and it was horryble for me because of all the noises and stuff.
I toled them about my problems with overloads and about my autism.

But they didn't know anything about autism there, so they wrote about "overloadproblems not sure delusional" ignoring the fact that this comes from autism and so on.
I had those diagnostic confusions allready a dozen times, because I have difficulties expressing my emotions and why I acted in a certan way and so on.